Show ILIONS r ARE IN I PERil Fears for Safety in the West India Islands MARTINIQUE IS DOOMED Should Mont Poleo Blow Its Head Off Loso of Life Would Do Appalling Appall-ing Tho United States Consul at Guadeloupe Now In Chicago on Sick Leave Talks of Conditions in tho Chain of Isles and What Is Likely to Result Million Lives Will Be Lost + 4 + + 4 + + + + it Chicago Set C I am sort p ously alarmed at the news of the 4 renewed activity of the Martinique 4 Marti-nique and St Vincent volcanoes + says Louis Hayme Unltedt I States CoiiBUl at Guadeloupe + oIo who Is In Chicago on tuck leave toO Should Mont Pelee blow Its t + head fort the loss of life would 4 1 + be appalling With Pelce as a + center a chain of Islands ex F + tondsi northwestward embracing + 1 a population of some 750000 Almost + Al-most without exception the cities 4 Sand + S-and villages arc situated along 4 1 tho coasts and but slightly elevated 1 + ele-vated above the sea A tidal J + l wave forty feet high would probably 1 l prob-ably destroy a half million lives + + before It dashed against the 4 shores of Porto Rico with Its + i million Inhabitants + + Tho people of these Islands + to are In a hard fdtuatlon Their + 01 communication with the outer + O world depends chiefly on a single + + sin-gle lino of steamers which call + 4 at Intervals of from ten days to + i throe weeks at some of the 1 I + islands when freight offers The + 1 whole lleet of this line could not + + carry 5000 persons + + + + + + MARTINIQUE IS DOOMED Total Destruction of tho Island Is Now Peared PolntaPItre Island of Guadeloupe Sept 5H Is generally believed that the Iflland of Martinique Is doomed to total destruction and the fear Is I that when the catastrophe comeu l Guadeloupe Guade-loupe will be visited by an alldestruc the tidal wave Business Is absolutely nt a standstill Few shops arc open and If It were not for the efforts of a email number oC more valiant uouls hundreds would starve to death here because of their Tear of a more terrible deathBURNING BURNING CHASM WIDENS Details that have been received during dur-ing the last two day prove that the eruption on Mont Pelcc of August 30th was for more violent than any of the earlier explosions As the eruption continues the jnouth of Mont Pclce grows Ip size It Is now of enormous proportions Morne Lacrolx one of the peaks that reared skyward from tO Houih side ot Pelce has fallen bodily Into the crater and has been completely com-pletely swallowed There seemo to be a side pressure In the crater and the burning chasm widens perceptibly every day dayHEAT HEAT IS TERRIFIC Clouds no more hang about the crest of Mont Polcc The terrific heat seems to drive everything away The column of flame and smoke rears directly Into the heavens so that Its top is lost l to Bight In the darkncits of the night It has the appearance of a stream of mol ten Iron standing fixed between heaven and earth From Morne Cape the re lief troops were compelled to make a quick retrqat although they succeeded In taking out a few wounded BURIED UNDER ASHES The entire country nearly to Fort de France Is burled under a deep cover of ashes This has made It almost Impos sible to find the bodies of those who have perished while fleeing to the sea coast STORY Ofr A SURVIVOR Constantine Carra one of the few who succeeded In escaping from Morno Rouge after the explosion found refuge on the steamer Esk She was with twelve others III her house when Pclee gave Its first warning of the disaster which It was about to pour upon the village She Bald that the first explo sion destroyed many houses She was hurled with great force against the wall of the room In which she was sit ting GREAT TONGUE OF FIRE On recoverIng from the shock she ran outside and there saw three separate tongue of fire sweeping down from the mouth of the volcano The earth shook with such at 2 great violence that she coulrl nol retain her feet She wag blinded by the glare vk the i mm eg The heat was so twine that her flesh was blistered She awaited the death rSe bcll belICvd to be Inevitable Fortunately the flames swept to on1 side oC her and she was SUed DROWNED BY TIDAL WAVE At Grand Anse the tide swept three 1eH and in shore destroying many houses ami drowning scores of Inhabitants Even at JW de France the most tout of heart have lost courage Col Le Cocur hns reported to his Government that It Is his opinion the to ntlro be abandoned IHInnd ° f Martinique will have He asks for assist ance In tl1nsporlln the Inhabltnntu to the other Islands of th Vest Indlun group fllt eruption of Mont Pee lee on Sep tember 3d was not remarkable hut there wag a terrific explosion from the Soufrlerc on that date SUN WAS OBSCURED The captain of the steamer Savana confirms the report cabled to the As aiclatcd Press last night that she ran Into dense clouds or dust when 20 miles south of St Vincent nt z oclock In the morning of Wednesday and adds that absolute darkuesa prevailed soon after wards 1 and that he changed his course to due west In order to avoid the ash s whlcli were falllnj thick The tlrst oniccr could not see the captain two feet and only knew him by his voice They did not RC tho sun until about 10 a 1 mtht same day PLANTATIONS RUINED The PteotncrYarce further reports that several more valuable plantations were destroyed at the time of the recent out break In addition to townships referred to In previous dlapatchea and adds that tho dejection of the population la general gen-eral |